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CardName: Ciphered Letter Cost: {2} Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If a card with one or more colors was revealed this way, add one mana of one of that card's colors. If a colorless card was revealed this way, uncover a Mystery (Create a colorless Mystery Enchantment token with "As long as you control this, you may play cards opponent's own that were exiled with Intrigue). Put the revealed card on the bottom of your library. Activate only as an instant. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: temporary storage Common
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  : Reveal the top card of your library. If a card with one or more colors was revealed this way, add one mana of one of that card's colors. If a colorless card was revealed this way, uncover a Mystery (Create a colorless Mystery Enchantment token with "As long as you control this, you may play cards opponent's own that were exiled with Intrigue). Put the revealed card on the bottom of your library. Activate only as an instant. |
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Was the first word supposed to be "Look"?
A lot of text for a common.
A mana ability that has unpredictable amount/kind of mana needs even more text: "Activate only as an instant." (compare Charmed Pendant)
Yeah, I hadn't checked what I had already wholly written while designing the card. I don't think there's much purpose in having a look before the reveal.
The mana generating ability alone was a lot of words, but I feel the flavor justifies it, while also not being worth an uncommon slot. Because colorless isn't a color, I thought a Mystery token would be the safer of the flavorful options (I had considered cause intrigue [see Forceful Detective]. In my current state of mind, I could write use "If a colorless card is revealed this way, instead add
." Either way, I figured the revealed card needed to be put somewhere, and the bottom of the library seemed natural. I did not know it'd need the "Activate only as an instant clause."
You don't need the timing restriction, but then you end up with all the problems of Selvala, Explorer Returned
@dude1818- Are you referring to second point of Selevala's ruling?
Right